Editor
Andy McMaster
Editor & co-founder
Andy runs editorial. Background in product and brand for finance and property businesses, including building yourfinanceguide.com.au. He commissions, edits, and signs off every guide before it publishes.
About Your Property Guide
We’re building the property research tool we’d want our own family to use.
Free suburb data, plain-English guides, and free calculators. Education first. No sign-up gate, no pushy CTAs, no agenda.
Why we exist
Australian property research is mostly written for the seller, not the buyer.
Most of what passes for property research in Australia is funded by the people selling you the property. The biggest portals are optimised for listings; the best data sits behind a paywall; the guides are gated by lead-capture forms.
We’re not against agents (we work with them, transparently). We’re against information being weaponised so you don’t know what you’re looking at when you bid, sign, or settle.
Your Property Guide is the tool we wish existed when our friends and family were buying their first home, or selling their last one, or trying to work out whether to upgrade. Free, current, sourced, and written so it actually answers the question.
Our charter
Four principles. Non-negotiable.
If we ever stop honouring any of these, hold us to them. Email andy@theandylife.com and tell us where we’ve drifted.
Education first
We answer the question, not push you to a form. The whole site is built around helping you make a confident decision.
Sourced and dated
Every figure is tagged with where it came from and when it was last refreshed. If anything looks off, tell us, we'll fix it within a week.
Free and ungated
No paywall, no sign-up, no email gate to read or use anything. Suburb data, calculators and guides are free, full stop.
Honest about money
Partner agents and brokers pay us only when matched work goes ahead. Disclosed on every match. We don't sell or trade your details.
How we make money
Buyers and sellers pay nothing. Ever.
When you’re ready to talk to a buyer’s agent or mortgage broker, we’ll match you with someone we’d use ourselves. They pay us a referral fee only when matched work goes ahead.
We disclose this on every match. We don’t sell your data. We don’t accept fees from anyone we wouldn’t use ourselves. And the data, guides, calculators and suburb profiles stay free regardless.
The people
Real names, real bylines.
Every guide carries the byline of the person who wrote it and the name of the editor who reviewed it. No anonymous content, no AI slop dropped in unchecked.
Editorial team
Your Property Guide editorial
Australian property research
Our editorial team writes the in-depth guides. Backgrounds across buyer’s advocacy, mortgage broking and consumer finance journalism. Every figure cites a source, every guide carries an updated date, and the editor reviews before publishing.
Editorial methodology
How we write, source, and update.
Every guide goes through the same three steps: a writer drafts against a published outline, a domain reviewer (broker, agent, or accountant depending on topic) sanity-checks the technical claims, and the editor signs off on plain-English clarity.
Sources. Suburb data is sourced from state Valuer-General offices, ABS Census, Geoscience Australia, OpenStreetMap, the Bureau of Meteorology, ACARA, and state police open data. Every figure on a suburb page carries a tooltip showing the source and the as-of date.
Updates. Guides are reviewed at least annually, and immediately after any material law or scheme change (state budget changes, Home Guarantee Scheme rounds, RBA rate decisions). Each guide shows the published date and the last-updated date.
Corrections. If you spot anything inaccurate, email andy@theandylife.com and we’ll fix it within a week. We log corrections in the guide footer.
The shorthand version
What you can count on.
No paywall. Every page is free, and stays that way. No login, no email gate.
No data resale. We don't sell or trade your details to anyone.
Disclosed matches. If a partner pays us, you'll see it on every introduction.
Vetted only. We don't take referrals from anyone we wouldn't use ourselves.